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by kps 2y ago
This particular core didn't go to Japan.
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by kps 2y ago
I'm just surprised it wasn't a Phillips camming out.
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by kps 2y ago
Mine is the cup-and-ball style toy.
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by kps 2y ago
Look at some of the comments here. If Bluesky has the reputation of being centered around US politics, it won't be the choice of those with other interests.
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by kps 2y ago
I think that's in line with pick-your-own — Bluesky has the concept of ‘labelling service’ (with Bluesky as a/the default labeller) and client actions based on those labels (hide/warn/show). If that's all that&#
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by kps 2y ago
I hope this will become true; it's the reason I made an account as soon as possible (not the one that matches my name), have followed hashtag-based feeds with mixed success, and donated to my favourite client (tokimeki.blue). I want to
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by kps 2y ago
It was (after porting to DEC's simpler paging hardware and purchase from BBN in 1973), but if that's not what your comment referred to, then what?
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by kps 2y ago
Should be “The PDP-10 operating system was TENEX, later called TOPS-20”, no?
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by kps 2y ago
And ed is in POSIX, so it's available on every minimally conforming system.
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by kps 2y ago
You can count me among those that are suspicious that this is a frog-boiling step, but it doesn't appear to me that STF money went to this, from https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/python-package-index#what-ar... Ma
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by kps 2y ago
Personally, I don't want to follow people, I want to follow subjects. I want to read Jay Expert's posts on their speciality without their posts on politics and breakfast. Maybe Bluesky feeds will make that possible (in which cas
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by kps 2y ago
The mid-October bump was artists discovering that posting on Twitter allows them to use posts for training AI. https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-year.html
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by kps 2y ago
You can't parse DNA with regex¹. ¹ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
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by kps 2y ago
I think those are the commenter's descriptions, not Apple's man page synopses. My system has afconvert -- Audio File Convert diskutil -- Modify, verify and repair local disks.
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by kps 2y ago
You mean `open .`
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by kps 2y ago
There is a probably-'80s document that I would like to find again, written I think by some university as an ‘introduction to Usenet’ for students. It had a section I particularly remember about focusing discussions on the topic of a
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by kps 2y ago
Most ‘xterm-compatible’ or ‘vt102-compatible’ terminals do, though at least one handles it wrong.
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by kps 2y ago
Historically there was a bifurcation between scientific/technical computing and business computing. The former wanted to write something close to E = mc ², while the latter wanted `MULTIPLY MASS-IN-GRAMS TIMES SPEED-OF-LIGHT-IN-A-VA
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by kps 2y ago
There are some other ‘well akshually ’ remarks I could make, but the root of today's mess is that Unix started with ASCII terminal interaction, but Linux desktops too heavily imitated Microsoft Window, for which the Control key ha
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by kps 2y ago
The final draft is [ edit: almost] exactly what was voted on to become the standard.
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by kps 2y ago
For some, including C and C++, the standards committee works in the open and make draft standards freely available. The final draft is [ edit: almost] exactly what was voted on to become the standard.
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by kps 2y ago
> There’s no real structure to which codes are in which categories, they’re all just kind of randomly scattered Not exactly. Although the 1967 revision muddled things a little, they are grouped by kind:¹ A8.2 The controls that we
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by kps 2y ago
While we're bashing Apple marketing: `:prefers-color-scheme` is a11y. Take your fucking fashion statements elsewhere.
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by kps 2y ago
Like trademark: Use it or lose it. (The reality is that publishers would put lazy photocopies up for sale at ten zillion dollars a piece.)
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by kps 2y ago
Yes. I haven't yet read this paper to see what exactly it says is new, but I've definitely seen log-based representations under development before now. ( More log-based than the regular floating-point exponent, that is. I don&#x2
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by kps 2y ago
You mean U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR?
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by kps 2y ago
> Obesity is a side effect of the industrial food production system in advanced economies that is slowly spreading all over the globe. Yes, for the first time in the millions of years of existence of humanity and pre-humanity, we consist
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by kps 2y ago
> Not unlike diabetes, celiac, or clinical depression. The latter is, like obesity, considered a personal failing (being one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins, depending on when you look), and medical treatment elicits similar reactions —
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by kps 2y ago
> They lived in an overall healthier environment. They lived in a different environment. The universal appetite-reduction drug was nicotine, and the common methods of administration had a number of undesirable side effects.
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by kps 2y ago
Many (but not all) 2u keycaps will fit on a pair of switches.

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